Jens andreas trendel



(No Model.)

J. A. TRENDEL. COLLAR BUTTON.

No. 547,161. Patented Oct. 1, 1895.

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J ENS ANDREAS TRENDEL, OF KULMBACH, GERMANY.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 547,161, dated October 1, 1895.

Application filed May 1,1894- Serial No. 509,715. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JENs ANDREAS THEN- DEL, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, re siding at Kulmbach, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, have invented. a new and 1111- proved Collar-Button, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to that class of button in which a flat stem is employed to connect a back plate with a front plate; and the object thereof is to so construct a button that the ends of a shirt-neckband overlap at a different point from that at which the ends of the collar overlap for the purpose of covering the buttonholes in the shirt-neck should they have been widened by wear or tear; and a further object of my invention is to provide a collar-button by which a shirt neck and collar may be widened or narrowed readily and at will.

My improved collar-button consists of a back plate, a notched flat stem attached thereto, and a front plate secured to the said stem, and it further consists of the improvements hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

The improved collar button is fully illustrated in the drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan view of my improved button, showing in section the shirt-neckband c and the collar d, and also showing the stem 11, composed of a sheet metal. Fig. 2 is a side view of the button. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1, with the exception that the stem or is composed of wire; and Fig. 4 is a side view of the button illustrated in Fig. 3.

Referring now to the drawings for a further description of my invention, 0 is a back plate having, preferably, the shape of a disk.

a is the stem, of rectangular crosssection, secured in any manner with one end to the back plate 0 and with the other to the front plate I), or, if desired, the three parts may be cast or formed from one piece of material. The stem a, connecting the back plate 0 and front plate I) at their respective centers, is provided with a notch a at one side of the center or median line of such a width as to accommodate two or more ends of the shirt neckband c, and with a notch a at the other side of the median or center line of the button, and this notch a is of such a width, measured from the back plate 0, as to accommodate only the thickness of one end of the shirt-neckband e.

From the drawings, Figs. 1 and 2, it will be observed that one end of the shirt-neckband is hooked over the notched part (notch d of the stem at and the other end of the said neckband overthe unnotched part, and in this case the ends of the shirt-neckband are drawn together to fiti more closely the wearers neck, while the collar d is also retained in position by the unnotched part of the stem at. If it is desired, however, to have a loose-fitting shirt neckband and collar, the button may be turned around one hundred and eighty degrees, and both ends of the shirt-neckband and one end of the collar 01 may or are caused to enter the notch 0. as will be readily understood.

. In Figs. 3 and a a button is illustrated having precisely the same features as are de scribed with reference to Figs. 1 and 2, with the exception that the stem at is composed of wire or other material to reduce the Weight of the button.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is-- A collar-button comprising afiat stem at, a back-plate c and a front piece or button I), said flat stem at having on one side of a median line of the button a notch a and on the other side of the said median line a notch a the notches a, and a being of different width and adjacent to the said back-plate, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Nuremberg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire, this 13th day of April, 1894..

JENS ANDREAS TRENDEL.

Witnesses:

OSCAR BOOK, A. ZIRK. 

